River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-10-13

The Kansas City Journal publishes a
divorce petition drawn by younglegal
light of that city AID on file in the
court records, from hich the following
is taken:
That during their married life the de-
fendant has exhibited such dangerous
traits of character, such violentpassion,
and such an entire abandon of her duties
and obligations as the wife of plaintiff,
expressing deep and uDalterable hatred
of plaintiff, attacking him with tubs.
broomsticks, hatchets, and whatever else
she could find convenient to lay her
hands upon; occasionally interrupting
the pantomime by Introducing few
adJectives, now English and then Ger
man, as best suited the fury of the star
actress in this drama of real life. so
that. having all these long, weary years
borne the burden of the storm and the
tempest's rage, he (the plaintff) being
by the defendant directed TO leave the
house--his house-with more than
common every day emphasis, which
simply means that the defendant, being
a women of large and masculine pro-
portions, with dauntless courage, with
jaw mightier than the tabled one that
slew the Philistines, aided and allotted
by the demon alcohol, with a great
wood aX in her hand, to try the force
and efficiency of which she began
the work OF destruction, in the presence
of the awe-stricken plaintiff, by cutting,
breaking, and demolishing the plain
titfs piano, for which he had paid 5000,
rs though il were leailess tree in the
wide, wide forest; then like terror-in-
spring Ajax, the huge German matron
stood plying her work of devastation,
beginning on the beautiful rosewood
instrument of seven octaves, proceed
ing to the handsome writing-desk, her
mercury rises to the highest pitch when,
with her brawny fists, she skaters the
face of the tall. fine mirror which will
never more reflect the sweet and ami
able countenance of defendant. Hav-
ing nowhere else TO look for material
to butcher, she turned like an ex-
ecutioner upon the plaintiff, who all
this while had been silent spectator
of the scene of havoc, bordering upon
the immortality of the soul and wonder
ing if in that far-off land ..woman is
the vine and man the oak" But when
he caught a glance from her eye and
thought that he could see the end oil
| life he stood not upon the order of his
going but quietly vamOoscd; moving
briskly, he picked up his trunk, and,
leaving his cross behind him in poss-
ession of house, furniture, and home
| (Alas! what a home!). and turning his
face and steps toward the setting sun,
he has never gone back to learn what
his aforesaid wife has done with s..
worth of personal property he left be.
hind him, and, with the permission OF
the court, he never will. And the
plaintiff further says he always thought
the bee was hived for the honey, the
sheep kept for his fleece, the ON
wrought for his profit, the fowl plumed
for his feathers, the tree grated tC
bring forth fruit, aud the earth titled
10 grow corn. but all the labor and
cost he has bestowed on the defendant
during nine years are cast away, and,
if he could persuade her to kiss a:
friends in the morning before noon
! she would be ready to throw the house
out of the window and he has never
received the slightest reward for al
his pains; therefore, lest the defendant
might feel at liberty to use plaintiff a
a football or a cuspidor, he makes the
prayer hereinafter following, which il
that he may be absolutely and forever
divorced from her, Internationally anC
without any legal or mental Ieserva
ton.